Etymology From Middle English synodal, synodall, from Latin synodālis. By surface analysis, synod + -al.
1
A monetary tribute formerly paid to the bishop or archdeacon, at the time of his Easter visitation, by every parish priest.
synodals, paid to the Bishop of Carlisle every year1887, Thomas Gibson, Legends and Historical Notes on Places of North Westmoreland:
2
A constitution made in a provincial or diocesan synod.
Or els is thys Goddis law, Decrees or decretals, Or holy sinodals, Or els provincyals, Thus within the wals Of holy church to deale […]?c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 65, lines 130–135:
synodal
adj
Etymology From Middle English synodal, synodall, from Latin synodālis. By surface analysis, synod + -al.
1
synodic; relating to a synod
Your juſtification is but a miſerable ſhifting off thoſe teſtimonies of the ancienteſt Fathers alledg’d againſt you, and the authority of ſome Synodal Canons, which are no warrant to us.1641, [John Milton], Animadversions upon the Remonstrants Defence against Smectymnuus, London: […] [Richard Oulton and Gregory Dexter] for Thomas Vnderhill, […], →OCLC, page 17: